Richard Flanagan's ancestors were Irish convicts transported to Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) in the 19th century. His father, Arch Flanagan, was a survivor of the infamous Thai-Burma Death ...

In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, “fact-checking does work”, says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who ...

The best memory card readers are an easy way to make sure you can always get your images off your camera. Sure, there's always the option to connect via USB, or wirelessly. But in practice, this can ...

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Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content. It’s you. Mark Zuckerberg ...

DW fact check: False. In fact, election results and other research indicates the opposite is true. Alice Weidel, the national party's co-chair, has said she sees May 8, the date on which Germany ...

the fact that experiences separated in time produce a stronger memory than the same amount of experience crammed in one go.” — Nikolay Kukushkin, DPhil The “spacing effect” refers to a ...

Memory is what makes us human. While other animals also have the ability to learn and remember, we often assume that their experiences lack the emotional and intellectual depth of something like ...

Five years ago, a mysterious new virus emerged in Wuhan, China, marking the start of a global health crisis. Initially nameless, the virus and the illness it caused would eventually ignite a ...

Narrator: The artist Salvador Dalí made The Persistence of Memory in 1931, using oil on canvas. The work measures 9 and a half inches high and 13 inches wide. In metric units, it is 24 centimeters ...